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Putting aside the usual problems with having your parents around for long periods of time, grandparents are an excellent source of babysitting labour – they're trustworthy, love their responsibilities and free!

Buying your first home can often be daunting and at times overwhelming. In recent times, the media has made it well-known that housing affordability is a big concern for many Australians, particularly for first home buyers. In the 2017/2018 financial year the NSW State Government introduced new initiatives to assist first home buyers in entering into the property market.

A worker is bullied at work if there is repeated and unreasonable behaviour directed towards a worker or a group of workers that creates a risk to health and safety. Unreasonable behaviour can include threatening, victimising or intimidating.

The Department of Home Affairs (formerly the Department of Immigration and Border Protection) is making changes to the skilled visa programs from March 2018. Below is a brief summary of those changes for foreign workers and Australian employers.

On 1 February 2018, the Point to Point Transport (Taxis and Hire Vehicles) Act 2016 (NSW) will commence. In addition to regulating the taxi industry, the Act aims to tackle the increasingly popular ride-sharing industry, with services such as "Uber" becoming popularised.

The litigation process in an adversarial trial is necessarily robust and often involves the cross-examination of witnesses to test the strength of their evidence. Advocates appearing for a party are tasked with engaging with the witnesses under cross-examination to apply the scrutiny that the adversarial process requires.

In a brief judgment handed down by his Honour, Justice White in Kondylis v Bacic[2017] NSWSC 66, the Supreme Court has reinforced two basic, but crucial, factors to be considered when dealing with an application for Orders for the withdrawal of a caveat.

Whilst we would all like to get along with our neighbours, sometimes even the best of relationships can sour over something as simple as a fence. If you’re having a dispute with your neighbour about the fence between your properties, there are things you can do.

Until the High Court's decision in Southern Han Breakfast Point Pty Ltd (in liq) v Lawrence Construction Pty Ltd [2016] HCA 52, the question whether a "reference date" was a precondition to issuing a valid "progress payment" under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2002 (NSW) (SOPA) remained undecided.